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What an expensive and enviromentally unfriendly way of being petty…

I won’t worry about cost but like I don’t want to waste it in a way that would pollute the earth more.

I don’t think any office should have an issue with employees using office supplies for personal stuff, but as others have said, waste is just wrong. Reclaim your time in small ways instead, it’s worth a lot more by every metric anyway.

As the manager who has to go get more and replace them every time we rapidly run out, no

I’m a remote worker. Does wasting my own supplies count?

Kinda? I use to like to make art (graffiti) in the most hidden places around work. Sticky note smiley faces in the ceiling. Jokes and killroys in sharpie anywhere I could get them and still be hard to find. I’m sure I wasted more time messing around with it than any actual materials.

Nah, never, ever waste anything. It’s a pure dick move. The world is already filled with enough trash and bullshit, and wasting things adds to that.

Now, you wanna appropriate some materials for your ongoing workplace self education program? Feel free in most cases. Never steal from an actual human, even if that human is behind an LLC or other form of business. A chain? Fuck their shit up, idgaf. I won’t do it unless it’s for emergencies or fundamental supplies without access to funds, but that’s my personal moral code.

Avoiding ripping off small businesses is the best option, even if you have to steal to survive. You take from the places that can afford it best, with extra goodness points if you target shitty companies (steal any nestle you want from a big chain, imo), but you have to have a line of some kind if you don’t want to end up fucked over by your own cock.

Now, my line of work, I didn’t need to take anything. I was in home health, and anything I would have wanted to take was free anyway. PPE was an open tap, with the only limits being based on realistic usage of more expensive supplies. But gloves, soap, masks, face shields, that kind of supply? You had to go crazy to even get a weird look.

Might be different in a bigger population area, but out here in the boonies, it was assumed you’d be carrying at least a week’s supply of PPE in your car all the time. So we’re talking a big duffel bag full of gear. We’d literally just go down the supply aisles in the back of the offices and fill up wagons that they kept on hand for when the supply bag you had was too bulky to carry but refilling. I would refill less often, and carry more. When I had to stop working, I offered to send what I had back, but it was a write off; not only could they not take it back, but it was a tax break as well. But my boss at the last job was an independent business owner, so I offered anyway, figured they might be able to use it for training in the office.

Theft = Bad